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Pāhoehoe breakouts on the coastal plain

As the summer months began to wind down this year, Nature's fury began to wind up and grab much of the news cycle.

Breakouts remain active on flow field, changes to ocean entry lava delta

Kamokuna Lavafalls Oct 3-5

Breakouts remain active on the coastal plain and pali

Coastal breakouts put on a show

In today's age of aerial photography, satellites, and drones, bird's-eye views of geologic features are taken for granted. A century ago, such...

Thirty-seven years after the May 18, 1980, eruption of Mount St. Helens, Washington, scientists, engineers, land managers, and Federal, State, and...

Clear views at the ocean entry

The probability of a destructive earthquake (magnitude-6.5 or higher) striking the Hawaiian Islands in the next 10 years is 50 percent. Are you ready...